R devel - Jan 2007 - PGF Device

Greetings all,
PGF is a package for LaTeX which works with both ps
and pdf output without any nasty hacks like pictex.
Is there any technical reason why there could not be a
PGF graphic device for R?  If not, I'm going to try to
throw one together.  Any tips for getting started?

Cheers,
Caleb

jtxx000 skreiv:
> PGF is a package for LaTeX which works with both ps
> and pdf output without any nasty hacks like pictex.
> Is there any technical reason why there could not be a
> PGF graphic device for R?
Not that I can think of. PGF is certainly powerful enough 
for this.
> If not, I'm going to try to throw one together.
Sounds wonderful. I am sure this will be useful for a lot 
of people.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

On 1/30/2007 8:50 PM, jtxx000 wrote:
> Greetings all,
> PGF is a package for LaTeX which works with both ps
> and pdf output without any nasty hacks like pictex.
> Is there any technical reason why there could not be a
> PGF graphic device for R?  If not, I'm going to try to
> throw one together.  Any tips for getting started?
The existing drivers are in the grDevices package.  I would start with 
one of those (the picTeX driver would probably be most similar) and go 
from there.  Alternatively, start from devNULL.c and fill in the blanks.

Someone else may be able to offer advice about whether you should be 
targetting this to be your own package, or for inclusion in the R
source.  In the past it's been impossible to create a driver in a 
package, and there's been talk about adding enough to the API to allow 
this, but I don't know whether that's in place yet.

Duncan Murdoch